Cryptic Commons: anthropological engagements with data-security, socio-mathematics, and interventions across scientific disciplines

Beskrivelse

CRYPTIC COMMONS is a space and concept that is under development and is formed through relations– a kind of socio-technical construction site – where data security, digitalization, cryptography and cyber-physical systems are objects for debate and co-creation.
It is conceived and constructed by anthropologists in collaboration with cryptographers and engineers during a research project aiming to develop algorithms and protocols that secure data and privacy in future cyber-physical systems. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among cryptographers and engineers, as well as actors involved in the digitization of society, the Cryptic Commons has so far materialised as a physical and online exhibition, a science TV series, and an art film, as well as an interdisciplinary research workshop.
In this paper we present and perform elements from the Cryptic Commons, and through these materializations we ask what new tasks, methods, modalities, and approaches AI and the digital era present for anthropology, and how anthropology can engage critically and caringly with these new socio-technical forms. The experience of co-creating the Cryptic Commons paves the way for new anthropological engagements into interdisciplinary work in the fields of datafication and social life in future cyber-physical systems.
We argue that new modes of engagement are needed, in academia as well as in public spaces, for the building of vocabularies and practices that can secure the well-being of communities and social structures. Socio-mathematics is one vocabulary to develop for the construction of a data-democracy. Enter with us into the Ideal, the Real and the Actual of interdisciplinary Futures Anthropology!

Periode	6 jun. 2022
Begivenhedstitel	RAI: Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society
Begivenhedstype	Konference
Placering	StorbritannienVis på kort
Grad af anerkendelse	International